11.14-11.21.2018 Voicing

11.14-11.21.18
Voicing

In music, it’s the placement of notes in relation to each other. We do the same in our community, spacing and placing our voices to ricochet off each other. Let’s examine a few that can be heard this week.

The voices of women grow louder every day, and this week CoolCleveland correspondent Jenna Thomas tracks the aftermath of the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings that saw the dismissal of Dr. Ford’s sexual assault claim, to see how college campuses around the state are “striving for better” as they revisit how they handle sexual assault claims.

Hopefully many of the voices in your life are laughing, and to help, the Cleveland Comedy Festival arrives not a minute too soon, with 40 performers presenting 30 shows all over town. Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings are louder than ever on their new release, which they’ll showcase at the Grog. TCO gives Cleveland kids ages 3-6 their own musical voice with their Musical Explorers program. Angie Haze rocks the Akron Civic with a pair of immersive events. And The Pith of Root and Sleep may go further at Tremont’s Doubting Thomas Gallery. Cleveland poet Shelley Chernin uses her ukulele at POETRY + at Lakewood’s Arts on Madison. Have you found your voice? –Thomas Mulready

Subscribe to CoolCleveland here
Download our free mobile apps for Apple and Android
Get help receiving the CoolCleveland e-blast here
Photo by Anastasia Pantsios
CoolCleveland is dedicated to George Nemeth

Let your voice be heard Consider CoolCleveland Sponsored Links, Sponsored Features and Sponsored Videos. Info@CoolCleveland.com

First People Day is happening November 17th at the Rocky River Nature Center. The day will be filled with demonstrations, talks, hikes and more, led by Cleveland Metroparks staff, local scholars and the Lake Erie Native American Council (LENAC). The CoolCLE show speaks with Beth Whiteley and Jen Graham of Cleveland Metroparks as well as Marlys Rambeau of the LENAC about the event.

Rambeau also tells us how the LENAC is working with the Native community in the Cleveland area to ensure its First Nations culture, art and dancing lives on, as well as teaching its children to have pride and respect for their ancestry and values. Plus local Native American music from Akron’s Michael Searching Bear and Red Bird Singers.

It was a blue Monday indeed this week when the Cleveland creative community got word that Cleveland.com arts & culture writer Nikki Delamotte had been murdered in Toledo the previous night. Just 30, she was that community’s voice and advocate, with a rare ability to report and relate a story with zest, diligence, insight and intelligence.

She was also that rare journalist who was a catalyst because of her special ability to identify, understand and share exciting things going on in town. There’s no doubt she would have gone on to even more dazzling things and that, if Cleveland does indeed undergo a transformation, she would have been a driving force by telling its story. She’s irreplaceable.

The Cleveland Comedy Festival heads into its 11th year with new performers, new venues and a less competitive vibe. More than 40 entertainers will perform at more than 30 shows taking place from Playhouse Square to the Music Box to Gordon Square’s Superelectric Pinball where they’ve create a little comedy club.

This year, you can just sit back and enjoy the acts without having to mark a ballot: there’s no audience-choice contest. “After 10 years with a contest we decided it was time to change things up,” says CCF co-founder John Wellington. “It won’t be as competitive. It’ll be just a really fun show where we’ll give out awards.” Wed 11/14-Sun 11/18.

SPONSORED: ONLY @ OBERLIN Known as “The Royal Family of Guitar,” the Romeros were the world’s first classical guitar superstars–and nearly six decades later, they remain a phenomenon unlike any other. Their lineup represents three generations–including original members Celin and Pepe–and their impassioned program features Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, and others. Sun 11/18.

Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings have come a long way since he started the project as a solo effort in his parents’ basement while he was a Case Western Reserve student in 2009. Now with five albums to their credit studio albums to their credit, they’ve toured the world as far away as China.

With their new release Last Building Burning, which Baldi describes as “really just intense,” they’ve taken another step along the road from being just one guy to being a more cohesive ensemble. Hear them at the Grog Shop, where they recorded their 2012 live album on Sat 11/17.

“With the growth of the #MeToo movement, young people are leading a new generation of women and men empowered to hold abusers accountable and provide the resources survivors deserve,” writes Cleveland State sophomore Jenna Thomas, as she explores the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and the dismissal of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault claim.

In light of that, Jenna talks to students at Ohio University and The Ohio State University to learn how assault claims are being handled and what students are doing to fight back and make campuses safer. And while she finds they still have problems, she learns that many at these universities are “striving for better.”

The Cleveland Orchestra seeds its future audiences with its Musical Explorers programs. These bite-sized events give 3-6 year olds an introduction to various orchestral instruments, demonstrate what they can do and gives the kids a chance to sing, clap and dance along with short selections. This weekend’s instrument is the often-overshadowed “Victorious Viola.” Fri 11/16 & Sat 11/17.

Click here for more CoolCleveland Kids events

Hungry people are hungry all year. But around this season, food drives ramp up. “Pack the Pantry,” sponsored by Ohio City’s Front Steps Housing & Services, is collecting non-perishable donations at their office and also Flying Fig next to Market Square Park. Wed 11/14.

* If you’re a bike rider who wants to help the hungry, come out to Euclid for the Cranksigiving ride, where cyclists get a list and ride to different grocery stores to pick up food items and deliver them to the Euclid Hunger Center. Sat 11/17.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.

Akron’s colorful singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Angie Haze presents a pair of eclectic “immersive events” at the Akron Civic Theatre, with dancing, storytelling and visual art, to celebrate two new releases. Fri 11/16 & Sun 11/18

* Apollo’s Fire presents three more performances of its “O Jerusalem!” program. Fri 11/16-Sun 11/18.
* Oud player Danny Lahood brings middle-eastern sounds to Kent’s North Water Street Gallery. Sat 11/17.
* Cleveland blues man Travis Haddix celebrates his 80th birthday at the Music Box. Sat 11/17.
* Hold Ah Vybes Jam Rock Reggae Summit brings together a bunch of local musicians at the Grog Shop. Thu 11/15.

Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Cool Events.

WED 11/14
The Musical Theatre Project’s new multimedia program “Just for Laughs” focuses on film and stage music with a humorous twist. They’ll perform tonight at the Solon Center for the Arts and Sun 11/18 at Playhouse Square’s Hanna Theatre.

* Local printmakers Anna Tararova and April Bleakney talk about their residency in Scotland and show work from their stay there at the Cleveland Print Room.

Click here for more events on Wed 11/14

THU 11/15
Is a “caravan” of scary thugs, criminals and terrorists from Latin America about to storm our southern border? No. Learn who refugees really are, why they are coming here and what their lives in Cleveland are like in a panel discussion at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library.

* Come dance on Ohio’s grave at NARAL’s Feminist Killjoy Karaoke at the Happy Dog.
* Shostakovich symphony and Stravinsky Capriccio highlight Cleveland Orchestra program. Also Sat 11/17 & Sun 11/18.

Click here for more events on Thu 11/15

FRI 11/16
Anything can happen when The Pith and Root of Sleep perform, blending music, dance and visual art in improvisational performances. They’ll be doing their thing at Tremont’s Doubting Thomas Gallery and maybe even taking it out to the street.

* Where did Hingetown suddenly come from? Find out at Creative Mornings Cleveland at St. John’s Church.
* Buy local Art! Get some holiday shopping done at 78th Street Studios’ Third Friday.
* WJCU Blizzard Bash at the Beachland benefits the Hunger Network.
* Bess Rodriguez Richard tells “Vivid Stories” in paint at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve.
* Holiday Friendsgiving Flea offers diverse shopping and socializing opportunities at the Madison. Through Sun 11/18.
* CityMusic Cleveland trio performs chamber music concert at Praxis Fiber Arts.
* Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery shows work of Northeast Ohio’s African American Quilt and Doll Guild. Through Fri 12/28.
* The Akron Symphony presents an evening of opera highlights at E.J. Thomas Hall.
* Red Molly dobro player Abbie Gardner flies solo at Peninsula’s G.A.R. Hall.
* Celebrate the holidays Victorian-style at North Olmsted’s Frostville Museum. Through Sun 11/18.
* Medina gets a jump on the holidays with its Candlelight Walk and holiday festival on the square. Through Sun 11/18.
* Dine with the 16th President at Hale Farm’s “Dinner with Lincoln.”
* Bay area Amricana band Front Country is back at Happy Days Lodge.

Click here for more events on Fri 11/16

SAT 11/17
Ashtabula’s Lasa Santuary rescues animals of all types from neglectful, cruel and exploitive situations while promoting a vegan lifestyle. Acoustic finger-style guitarist Michael Kelsey plays a benefit concert for the organization at the Kent Stage.

* Urban art nonprofit Graffiti HeArt hosts benefit/arts event at CLE Urban Winery.
* Dark Xmas lights the way for horror fans in Hudson. Also tomorrow.
* Bands rock out at the Winchester to benefit the Waterloo Alley Cat Project.
* Joe Fletcher and his new band, Hotel Ten Eyes, play Ohio City house concert.
* Lake View Cemetery lays a wreath for President Garfield.
* The Warren Miller extreme sports documentary and ski fest is back at the Akron Civic.
* SPACES opens last batch of 2018 exhibits.
* Catch Kent’s legendary Numbers Band at Peninsula’s G.A.R Hall.
* Fran Belkin signs her book about Cleveland rock concerts at Tremont’s Visible Voice Books.
* A Monty Python classic screens at the Sandusky State Theatre.

Click here for more events on Sat 11/17

SUN 11/18
A dad and three sons founded the classical Romero Guitar Quartet in 1958 in Spain. Two of those sons and THEIR sons now comprise the ensemble, which will play a concert featuring Spanish music at Oberlin’s Finney Chapel.

* Arts Renaissance Tremont presents operatic soprano Dina Kuznetsova.
* Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein plays a free concert at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Click here for more events on Sun 11/18

MON 11/19
Author Kristina McMorris has made the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists with her novels and nonfiction and historical memoirs. Come hear what inspires her and makes her tick at the Beachwood Library.

* James Feddeck leads Cleveland Orchestra members and other professional musicians in a free concert for the Rocky River Chamber Music Society.

Click here for more events on Mon 11/19

TUE 11/20
Prolific Cleveland poet Shelley Chernin, who is also an environmentalist and ukulele player, has had her work published in countless journals and magazines, and placed in poetry competitions. Spend an evening immersing yourself in her work at POETRY + at Lakewood’s Arts on Madison.

* That Sound play improvised music at the BOP STOP, followed by the monthly Outlab improv jam session.

Click here for more events on Tue 11/20

WED 11/21
The night before Thanksgiving is a big bar night. But if you’d rather not throw up to a cover band, come down to Forest City Brewing, enjoy a craft beer and jin Common Room Theatre for “Pop-Cleveland,” a locally slanted trivia mobile game contest, with the timely theme of “Food & Family.”

Click here for more events on Wed 11/21

Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com

A month before I got out of the joint for the last time in 1995 I promised myself, the good Lord, and two or three other white folks, that I would never again run afoul of the law – and I haven’t. I was past my 50th birthday, but it wasn’t very long before women began throwing themselves at me…

* Rebuke, Not Repudiation Here in Ohio any lingering question about us being a swing state any longer was vanquished as Republicans swept all of the statewide offices, and even voted to continue to kill their own young by voting down Issue 1…

Read other stories from Mansfield Frazier here

A look back at the last week
Submit your own review or commentary to Events@CoolCleveland.com

THEATER REVIEW: Cabaret @ Baldwin Wallace by Roy Berko

THEATER REVIEW: Cabaret @ Baldwin Wallace by Laura Kennelly

VIDEOSTREAM: Inlet Dance Theatre’s Big Bash 2018 @ CPT’s Parish Hall

THEATER REVIEW: Day of Absence @ Karamu by Roy Berko

Read and comment here: http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog

Can you hear this town’s voice?

–Thomas Mulready

Letters@CoolCleveland.com

 

Cool Networks LLC / 14837 Detroit #105 / Cleveland, OH 44107
All contents (c)2018 Cool Networks LLC all rights reserved

Post categories:

Leave a Reply

[fbcomments]